Santeuil Quotes & Sayings

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. — Kevin Bacon

When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame Santeuil had not the courage to refuse. But, as soon as Jean's uncle had gone home, she threw them away, saying that they already had more than enough in the way of luggage. And then Jean cried because he had been separated from the darling creatures which he would have liked to take with him to Paris, and because of his mother's naughtiness. — Marcel Proust

All my battles were with male egos. I'm just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision. — Joni Mitchell

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed. — James Scott

I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable. — Bryan Cranston

I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way. — Blind Willie McTell

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. — Ken Jennings

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. — Robert McKee

I? This is the very root of all evil. — H.M. Forester

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. — Rita Dove

I can see myself before myself
A being through dark scenery. — Dejan Stojanovic

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously. — Stephen Fry

as the old pharaoh was laid to rest, allowing her brother to claim his place fully upon the Isis Throne. — Stephanie Thornton

In a world where nothing exists by itself, where every division of one thing from another is a misperception - or misconception - of the way things really are, there are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind.

We cannot, for example, draw a line around the eyes that is not necessarily arbitrary. There is no point at which the eyes begin or end, either in time or in space or conceptually. The eye bone is connected to the face bone, and the face bone is connected to the head bone, and the head bone is connected to the neck bone, and so it goes down to the toe bone, the floor bone, the earth bone, the worm bone, the dreaming butterfly bone. Thus, what we call our eyes are so many bubbles in a sea of foam. This is not only true of our eyes but of our other powers of sensation as well, including the mind. — Red Pine

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. — Malcolm Boyd